Prospective homeowners slept in cars to snap up first homes in new Cork housing development

 Joanna Humphreys with her niece Willow Fogarty-Bahl were in the queue since Thursday afternoon for the viewing of the new housing estate. Picture: Eddie O'Hare

People who slept in their cars outside a new €200m residential development in Cork City were quick to agree contracts for sale for some of the most sought-after homes in the country. 

More than 1,000 people turned up from around 11am on Saturday at the Bayly development, near Cork’s Douglas village.